Belington Progressive (Belington, W. Va.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
777 issues from 1912 to 1927, published in Belington, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Belington Progressive began as a consolidation of the Belington Independent, the Central Republican, and the Belington Observer. While the Progressive would list these papers as defunct in its inaugural issue, May 16, 1912, it would not be until May 6, 1915 that it acknowledged the fact that it was indeed formed out of their merger. The Progressive was published weekly, on Thursdays, except during two specific weeks in its run: June 30 to July 5, 1915 and July 3 to July 7, 1916, respectively, when the paper’s name was temporarily changed to the Daily Progressive. The paper became a daily briefly, to celebrate the traveling Chautauqua circuit coming to Belington, reverting back to its normal name and schedule following the festivities.
Belington, Barbour County, West Virginia, counted among its denizens a number of enthusiastic boosters for the newspaper. One such booster was Frederick Earl Thompson (c. 1883-1986), proprietor of the Thompson Publishing Company, the Progressive‘s publisher. The Progressive was therefore dedicated from its very first issue to “the improvement and development of Belington and Barbour County.” In its close to 800 issues, the Progressive‘s page count ranged from as few as 2 to as many as 12 or more, but typically settled on either 4 or 8. Starting out at a $1/year subscription, this price increased to $1.50 by the end of the paper’s run.
In the April 16, 1914 issue, after almost two years of simply listing “Thompson Publishing Co.” on the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Belington, West Virginia, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress